Upgrade Suggestion

An athlon64 64bit, Socket 939, Nforce4 SLi system if you are planning to all out

you aregoing to need a videocard and up it to a gig of RAM. get another stick of 512, run that in dual channel, and stick a 6800 in there (any flavor). you might want to get an Audigy or Audigy 2 also. any furhter upgrades and you'll probably need a new motherboard and processor (like Reich suggested). but that's not much of an upgrade, that's a new computer

Heck with an audigy....I have a live, and it sounds great!!! Much better than the onboard audio I've had for years now. But besides that, I agree with hushy, add another 512 stick of ram, and up the vid card.

Well I'm kinda poor right now so I was figuring an upgrade in the area of ~$200. So should I go for the videocard or the ram first? If I get the ram I'll probably have enough for a new soundcard too, but I don't really need a sound card, the soundblaster live is doing good for me.

with that 200 bux, if you look in the right place (*ahem www.newegg.com) then you can get a 6600gt, which is one of the "best" cards out there.

get the videocard that will make the biggest difference. newegg doesn't have any 6600GTs that are AGP for around 200. the ones that are AGP are like 230 and more. if you get to 300 you can get a 6800nu. i got my albatron 6800 for $303 including tax and shipping.

like I said me=poor, two hundred is even pushing it..or should I just save and wait

have you tried flashing the 9500 to 9700? or does it only work with 9500p's

only np but mine doesn't work

Well, if that's the case, then go for the ram stick. Consider extra ram=better overall system performance whereas a new graphics cards simply equals better graphics.

Yeah, thats what I'll do, my b-day is coming up soon maybe if I beg enough I'll get a new graphics card.

I would save up if I was you. While you could possibly get a 6600 GT, I dont really like the fact they only have 128 MB Ram on them. Sure the ram is undoubtedly fast, but I just think that aint enough memory for today's cards. I think that if your going to get a new card and want to be absolutely sure you will be happy with it, its gotta be 256 MB, where you can get a 6800 nu like hushypushy said, though I would love to have a 6800 GT myself, but its still way too much.